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Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, Smith, Paul
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- 9781565844025
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1565844025
ISBN-13
9781565844025
eBay Product ID (ePID)
521931
Product Key Features
Book Title
Like a Hurricane : the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Native American
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.5 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-048025
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
979.4/61
Synopsis
It's the mid-1960s, and everyone is fighting back. Black Americans are fighting for civil rights, the counterculture is trying to subvert the Vietnam War, and women are fighting for their liberation. Indians were fighting, too, though it's a fight too few have documented, and even fewer remember. At the time, newspapers and television broadcasts were filled with images of Indian activists staging dramatic events such as the seizure of Alcatraz in 1969, the storming of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building on the eve of Nixon's re-election in 1972, and the American Indian Movement (AIM)-supported seizure of Wounded Knee by the Oglala Sioux in 1973. Like a Hurricane puts these events into historical context and provides one of the first narrative accounts of that momentous period. Unlike most other books written about American Indians, this book does not seek to persuade readers that government policies were cruel and misguided. Nor is it told from the perspective of outsiders looking in. Written by two American Indians, Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior, Like a Hurricane is a gripping account of how for a brief, but brilliant season Indians strategized to change the course and tone of American Indian-U.S. government interaction. Unwaveringly honest, it analyzes not only the period's successes but also its failures. Smith and Warrior have gathered together the stories of both the leaders and foot soldiers of AIM, conservative tribal leaders, top White House aides, and the ordinary citizens caught up in the maelstrom of activity that would shape a new generation of political thought. Here are insider accounts of how local groups coalesced to form a national movement for change. Here, too, is a clear-eyed assessment of the period's key leaders: the fancy dance revolutionary Clyde Warrior, the enigmatic Hank Adams, and AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means. The result is a human story of drama, sacrifice, triumph, and tragedy that gives a ground-level view of events that forever changed the lives of Americans, particularly American Indians.
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